Design and shielding of radiotherapy treatment facilities / Patrick Horton, David Eaton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horton, P. W., author.

Eaton, David (David J.) (Clinical scientist), author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (Great Britain), issuing body.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 3.

IOP expanding physics

Series in physics and engineering in medicine and biology

IPEM report ; no. 75.

[IOP release 3]

IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563

IPEM report ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radiation Protection--standards.

Radiotherapy.

Shielding (Radiation).

Radiology Department, Hospital--standards.

Hospital Design and Construction--standards.

Hospitals--Radiological services--Design and construction.

Hospitals.

Radiation--Safety measures.

Radiation.

Hospitals--Radiological services.

Medical Subjects:

Radiation Protection--standards.

Radiotherapy.

Radiology Department, Hospital--standards.

Hospital Design and Construction--standards.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2017]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Patrick W Horton is retired from the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK. David J Eaton is a lead clinical scientist, national radiotherapy trials QA group, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, UK.

Summary:

Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international experts on all modalities including megavoltage and kilovoltage photons, brachytherapy and high-energy particles, and on conventional and Monte Carlo shielding calculations. This book is a comprehensive reference for qualified experts and radiation-shielding designers in radiation physics and also useful to anyone involved in the design of radiotherapy facilities.

Contents:

12. Shielding verification and radiation surveys

12.1. Introduction

12.2. During construction

12.3. Post construction radiation survey

detailed shielding integrity testing

12.4. Preliminary safety assessment

12.5. Critical examination

12.6. Radiation surveys

12.7. Surveys of kilovoltage equipment

12.8. Surveys of brachytherapy facilities

12.9. Surveys of CT scanners

12.10. Validation of results.

11. Radiation shielding and safety for particle therapy facilities

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Sources of extraneous radiation

11.3. Design and build process considerations

11.4. Regulatory requirements and design criteria

11.5. Workload, use and occupancy factors

11.6. Construction materials

11.7. Theory of radiation transport : solving the Boltzmann equation

11.8. Practical shielding calculations

11.9. Monte Carlo calculation methods

11.10. Mazes and ducts

11.11. Room interlocks and monitoring

11.12. Radiation hazards resulting from activation

11.13. Measuring and monitoring techniques and instrumentation

11.14. Summary

10. Brachytherapy

10.1. Treatment modes

10.2. Regulatory considerations

10.3. Room design

10.4. High dose-rate afterloading

10.5. Pulsed dose-rate afterloading

10.6. Permanent implants : iodine-125 seeds

10.7. Eye plaques

Preface

1. The design and procurement process

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Strategic proposal and business case for a new development

1.3. Design team

1.4. Process, tenders and contracts

1.5. Construction

1.6. Acceptance and handover

1.7. Commissioning

1.8. Project evaluation

2. The design of radiotherapy facilities

2.1. General

2.2. Linear accelerators

2.3. Cobalt-60 units

2.4. Kilovoltage units

2.5. Brachytherapy

2.6. Particle therapy

3. Radiation protection requirements

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Quantities and units

3.3. System of radiation protection

3.4. Regulatory framework in the UK

3.5. Basic radiation protection principles in radiotherapy

3.6. Controlled areas

3.7. Optimisation in the design process

3.8. Engineering controls

3.9. Prior risk assessment

3.10. Additional regulatory requirements

4. Clinical practice, treatment room and control room design

4.1. Clinical practice

4.2. Treatment room design

4.3. Control room design

5. Empirical shielding calculations for treatment rooms with linear accelerators

5.1. General principles

5.2. Primary barriers

5.3. Secondary barriers

5.4. Roofs and skyshine

5.5. Groundshine

5.6. Obliquity factor

5.7. X-ray scatter down the maze

5.8. Neutron scatter down the maze

5.9. Maze doors and lining

5.10. Direct doors

5.11. Laminated walls and roofs

5.12. Spreadsheet approach for primary and secondary shielding

6. Monte Carlo methods

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Available Monte Carlo codes and deciding which one to use

6.3. Using the MCNP code

6.4. Using the FLUKA code

6.5. MCNP, induced neutrons and particle therapy

6.6. Calculation of whole-body doses

6.7. Summary

7. Shielding materials and construction details

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Materials with unspecified TVLs

7.3. Construction details

8. Specialist applications : Gamma Knife®, TomoTherapy® and CyberKnife®

8.1. The Gamma Knife®

8.2. TomoTherapy®

8.3. CyberKnife®

9. Kilovoltage therapy and electronic brachytherapy

9.1. Superficial and orthovoltage therapy

9.2. Electronic brachytherapy and intra operative radiotherapy

Notes:

"Version: 20170701"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750314404

9780750314428

OCLC:

1001285184

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Restricted for use by site license.